I saw someone bring Eelektross. At first, I thought "Oh! That's smart! Gastro Acid to get rid of Chesnaugts ability, Acid Spray to lower it's Sp.Def then go to town with Giga Drain or use Discharge to paralyze maybe..." Nope! Turn one it starts spamming Charge Beam and repeatedly dies because it has no health recovery-- despite having access to Giga Drain and Drain Punch, both Super Effective for this Raid but whatever...
But you don't always get got AI helpers. Gen 8 had too many garbage ai npc's martin's solrock and alfie's wobbuffet were among the worst.
Yes, but the Ai going down doesn’t take away from the timer unlike other the case with playing with other players.
How about Shinx? Just got one as a teammate today, holding a Focus Sash. We won though!
I do it for two reasons: to help the people who are playing them openly (that person with the Level 67 Flapple would have never cleared it on their own, for instance, and likely not the person who brought the Shinx either), and so I can play more than one per 24-hour period.
A lot of people make mistakes both newcomers and experienced players alike.
Yes but surely they can read? Right? You’re playing a video game, you’ve got to be good enough to have got through the game to have that Inteleon and that Typhlosion.
and many of the tera bosses have VERY TANKY defenses like Chesnaught.
Though some mechanics are not clearly explained, particularly as there is a lack of an in-game glossary. People may not know raid bosses still get STAB on their original types, you could also be dealing with a newcomer to the Pokemon franchise that got drawn to a 7-star raid just because it stars one of their favourite Pokemon.
I think it's more that they base Terastallization on how the in-story characters use them. Particularly with Gym Leaders on your first time through, their last Pokémon will primarily use moves of that Tera type. Katy's Teddiursa will only use Fury Cutter, Brassius's Sudowoodo will only use Trailblaze, Iono's Mismagius will only use Charge Beam, etc. This could give the impression that computer players are stupid and lock themselves into only moves of their Tera type.
I never noticed that the Gen 9 Gym Leaders are always coded for a single move. That's almost like the G1 AI that you could take advantage of like Erika against Venusaur's poison immunity and Lance using Barrier on Poison types.
Primarily, not exclusively--the further you go, at least along the intended order, the less inclined they are to ONLY use those moves. That being said, I think it only really happens noticeably from Larry and onwards, with only Grusha not caring to stick with the Tera type. Nevertheless, if these people play at a low skill level (nothing wrong with that--everybody has to start somewhere), the occasion may never come up for them to see Terastallized Pokémon use moves outside of their Tera types. Worse still, they may get the impression that you're allowed only to use moves of the Tera type, and it comes as a shock to them to, say, play that Inteleon raid, then see Inteleon use Snipe Shot on the Fire-type they brought, like Skeledirge or Armarouge.
That how Gen 9 raids are unpredictable for many. If people are unfamiliar with Gen 8 it's no wonder they didn't know better Inteleon is originally a
